Bill, Hi. Seth Sandronsky here.
Officially, two million Americans can hardly be called "fortunate." They languish in U.S. jails and prisons, filled disproportionately with black and brown people. This trend reflects the growth in surplus labor. It is handled partly by the prison-industrial system, which emerged after the abolition of chattel slavery and expansion of the "free" wage-laborer in the U.S. The terms slavery and wage-labor are different and similar. I suggest we flesh them out to better clarify the current rot in American-style capitalism. Seth Re: Re: The Incomplet Recession by Bill Lear 10 March 2002 On Saturday, March 9, 2002 at 22:35:26 (-0800) Tom Walker writes: >I see the hair-shirt left-wing gloomster crowd is at it again wringing >their >hands in ghoulish glee at the misery that will befall the working class and >lead lickety-split to the "final conflict." When will you guys ever learn >that rotten and corrupt as it is, capitalism provides the best damn >goo-gahs >on earth. Capitalism has provided a lot more than goo-gahs. Medicines, food in abundance, art, entertainment, advanced technologies, etc., etc., not to mention plenty of corpses (those directly murdered and those whose lives are cut short due to deprivation), poor and oppressed peoples, inequality, environmental destruction, etc., etc. For the fortunate citizens of the United States, though the oppression, inequality, and time spent working for goo-gahs are rising, life is still pretty bearable, even enjoyable. This tends to give rotten and corrupt systems, such as our own system of slavery (which is what we must call it if we are honest), lots of resilience --- lots more resilience than the people who have their lives crushed by deep recessions. Bill _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com
